Category: mini’s

I’ve finished up another room in the Christmas Cottage to share with you today.

This is the room that I ‘wallpapered’ in some October Afternoon scrapbook paper in a pretty red and mint green plaid (I shared a sneak peek of it last week).

I added the pine flooring from Hobby Lobby here too, but this time I gave it a white wash using watered down Dixie Belle Drop Cloth paint.  I used a a ratio of about 1 part paint to 3 parts water.  After brushing that on, I wiped away any excess until I got the look I wanted.

By the way, if you’re curious about the difference between white washing, pickling, lime waxing or cerusing, check out the post I wrote back in 2018 about these techniques …

Anyway, moving on.

Next up I decided to add some cushioned window seats.

I have to confess, I didn’t do the neatest of jobs on that, but I think they are good enough.  I simply cut out a piece of cardboard to fit and then covered it with some batting and fabric using Titebond Quick and Thick glue.  The fabric is a pretty vintage mint green linen tea towel that I cut up.  The little pillows came with some bedding that I ordered via Etsy, and you’ll see that bedding in a minute.

Next up I ordered a wardrobe from Miniature Crush.

I’ve painted up a few of these for my other dollhouses, but this time around I decided to go red!

I started with an undercoat of Dixie Belle’s Drop Cloth which you can see where I’ve distressed some of the edges.  Then I added three coats of their Barn Red.  I truly did not expect to love this look as much as I do!  But this is a Christmas Cottage, and that Barn Red is the perfect Christmas red.

After painting the cupboard inside and out, I sanded lightly using the Dixie Belle 220 grit sanding sponge.  I like to use the sponges when I need to use a bit of a delicate touch, like on miniatures.  Once dry, I added a coat of DB’s clear wax.  I swapped out the simple round knobs that came with the wardrobe for some drop handle style pulls from Miniature Crush.

I followed that up by lining the back wall of the interior in some red and white striped paper (coincidentally, also an October Afternoon scrapbook paper).

Next up I ordered a pair of twin beds from The Modern Dollhouse.

Sure, it was probably a silly added expense to add two beds to this room, but I just love the look of a matched pair of twin beds, don’t you?

I didn’t love the mattresses with their sloppy dust ruffles that came with these beds though …

but as you’ll see in a minute, I ended up tucking those out of sight.

To begin, I painted the beds in a base coat of Dixie Belle’s Pine Cone.

I originally ordered this color for a couple of other projects that I haven’t gotten to yet, but have since discovered that I really like it as a base color under Drop Cloth.

And that’s what I did on this pair of twin beds.

The Pine Cone is the perfect shade of ‘stained wood’ to distress back to under the Drop Cloth.

As you can sort of see in that photo above, I tucked the dust ruffle on the mattress underneath it and then I covered the mattress in some scrap fabric that I had on hand.

This time around I didn’t create my own miniature bedding.  I would have, except when I was searching for just the right Christmas themed fabric to use I ended up finding the perfect set of pre-made bedding on Etsy.

It’s mint green and red (to match the plaid wallpaper) with a little pink thrown in which ties into the pink bathroom that is on the floor above.  It has sweet reindeer and snow people on it, and it came with those adorable Merry Christmas pillows (plus those pillows that I put on the window seat).

I ordered it from Millie’s Mini Decor and I highly recommend her.  My order arrived super quickly and was exactly as pictured.

Next up, as I shared last week, I created some framed ‘art’ for the room.

I started with some unfinished frames that I purchased at Michael’s.

  I white washed the frames using the same technique that I used on the floor.  Then I cut some thin pieces of balsa wood to fit into the frames and painted them in a solid coat of Drop Cloth.  Once dry, I applied the two little snowman transfers shown above from the I.O.D. Kitschy Christmas transfer set.

They were perfect for this room!

With that, I’m calling this room finished!

What do you think?

Leave a comment and let me know!

Last week I shared the first completed room in the Christmas Cottage and I’m calling it the craft room.

And in that post I gave you a little, bitty sneak peek into the next completed room.

The room is just through that doorway on the right, and I decided to make it a bathroom.

I started with the walls, painting them in the same Pink Champagne that I used in the craft room.  Then I pulled out some scraps of subway tile ‘wallpaper’ that were left over from the kitchen in my last miniature project …

I had enough left over to do a half wall in this bathroom.

I also used the same inexpensive ($3.49 per 11″ x 17″ sheet) black and white flooring from Hobby Lobby.

Next up I decided to add some inexpensive fixtures that I found at Michael’s.

I needed to add a little bling to give them some life, so I applied some of Dixie Belle’s gold gilding wax to the faucets.  The gold will tie in with a couple of other pieces in the room too.

I also painted the toilet seat with Dixie Belle’s Caviar.

They are small details, but I really think they make the fixtures look slightly more upscale.

After putting the fixtures in place, I had enough room to add the blanket cabinet that I painted up last year in Dixie Belle’s Cottage Door.  It has a little more of that gold bling in the form of the I.O.D. Étiquettes gilded transfer on the doors.

Finally I added just a couple more details like a mirror over the sink and a framed floral print.  The mirror is one of the few pieces that came with the house.

With that, I’m calling that bathroom completed.

You’ll notice that I didn’t really come up with anything Christmas related for this room, but then not everyone decorates their bathroom for the holidays right?

I think I’ll move on to the 2nd floor next week, so be sure to stay tuned.  In the meantime, leave a comment and let me know what you think of the bathroom.

I had a feeling that once I took that first step of getting started on the Christmas Cottage refurb, everything would just start to fall into place.

And sometimes that just takes the right pink.

In this case, it’s Dixie Belle’s Pink Champagne.

It’s a really lovely pale pink, much more subtle than the brighter pinks that the house came with …

Those were more of a Pepto Bismol.

I’ve started on the third floor, and I painted both of those two rooms facing the back (there is a 3rd room on that floor, but you access it from the front of the house) in Pink Champagne.  Once dry, I decided to try a technique that I learned from Julie Warren on YouTube.  I’m not going to give you step by step instructions here, if you want that please check out her video tutorial here.

But basically, you piece together plain paper to create a template for your wallpaper.

This allows you make cuts and adjustments without wrecking your pricey wallpaper.  Then you pull that template off and use it to cut out your wallpaper to fit your wall precisely.

It worked beautifully!

As you can sort of see, I had to cut around some weird stuff on the left side of the ceiling.  Plus, it took two sheets of wallpaper to go all the way across, and I was able to get the repeat to work before I cut out the paper.  There are a few rooms with funky angles in this house, and now I feel much more confident about wallpapering those rooms too.

I will point out here that the repeat on the wallpaper is not exactly right, by which I mean that you can’t put two sheets of this paper side by side and have the repeat work.  You have to move the 2nd sheet up about 2″.  That could potentially be an issue if the paper is just tall enough for your room.  Just something to keep in mind if you are wallpaper in full size or in 1:12 scale.

Once the wallpaper was in place, I moved on to the flooring.  Once again I used the pine wood flooring from Hobby Lobby.  It comes in an 11″ x 17″ sheet for $7.49.  Fortunately, I ordered half a dozen sheets of this flooring a few months back knowing I would need it for this project because now it’s out of stock online, FYI.

Once again I used the Sweet Pickins Dark Oil Wax to ‘stain’ the floor.

Next up, I decided to add some wainscoting to the lower, vertical portion of that back wall.  I used the Mayberry Street wainscoting, also from Hobby Lobby.

It comes in 12″ x 3 1/4″ sheets for $2.49.

Since I wanted my boards to run vertically, I cut two sheets into 3″ tall sections.  Then I needed to choose a paint color.

I was pretty sure I wanted white, and you’d think that would be simple, right?  But no, I tried out my favorite Drop Cloth first and initially I didn’t think it worked well with the cleaner shade of pink on the walls.  So I tested out three other shades of white plus Dixie Belle’s Wicklow Glen, a muted green, just to see if I would like it.

But in the end, I still went with Drop Cloth.  I guess I’m just not a fan of brighter shades of white.

Once I had my sheets of wainscoting painted, I realized I had a little bit of an installation predicament.  If I just glued them straight to the wall, it would be difficult to get them to line up perfectly and hide any seams.  I also needed to add a bit of trim across the top to finish them off, and I thought that would be harder to do in place.

So I ended up cutting a piece of foam core board to fit that back section of wall.  Then I constructed that whole wall of wainscoting by gluing everything to the foam core board.  It was easy to add the trim and clamp it in place.  I also used some of Dixie Belle’s Mud in white to camouflage the seams between each section.

After then adding a final coat of Drop Cloth, it was easy to just pop the whole thing into place.

To add one more fun touch to the room I decided to use a barn style sliding door that I painted up a while back.  I shared this door with you a year or so ago in this little vignette …

I hadn’t really found a permanent home for it, so I pulled it out to try in this room and it worked perfectly

I gave the hardware its verdigris look using Dixie Belle’s Patina Paint in Copper with the blue activating spray.

After giving some thought to what the purpose of this attic space might be and how I wanted to stage it, I landed on it being a craft room.  And since this is a Christmas Cottage, one might use their large craft table to wrap Christmas presents, right?

I purchased some downloadable mini gift wrap on Etsy, printed it out and then rolled it up into rolls and wrapped a couple of small packages.

The table is one that I already had on hand, but also never found a home for.  Since I liked how that Wicklow Glen color worked with the wallpaper, I decided to use it on the base of the table.

The top of the table already had a Drop Cloth wash on it.

The rug and chair were also pieces that I already had on hand.

And with that, I’m calling the first room complete.

I realize that the room looks a little bit bare, but that’s because I definitely do not plan to keep this dollhouse for myself.  Hopefully a future owner can expand upon the theme and create a full-on craft room … or whatever else they might want this room to be.

In the meantime, what do you think?  Leave a comment and let me know!

Well shoot you guys, once again I managed to catch a virus on my recent trip.  How utterly frustrating and annoying.  I’ve gotten sick on nearly every trip I’ve taken over the last year or so.  I’m not sure where I’m going wrong.

First of all, I almost never get sick at home, only when I travel.  Second of all, I do all of the things while traveling.  I wash my hands frequently, I wipe down my airplane seat with a Chlorox wipe, I get plenty of rest, I exercise regularly, I eat right (OK, well, most of the time), I get the flu shot.  I did skip the Covid vaccine this year, mainly because as you’ll remember I got Covid on our Canada cruise in September so then you have to wait 3 months to get the vaccine, yada, yada, yada.

I do have a working theory.  About this time last year we signed up for an Am Ex card that gives us access to the Skymiles airport lounges where they have a ‘free’ buffet.  So for all of my recent trips (except Mexico), I’ve been treating myself to that buffet before a flight.  And I’ve gotten sick on all of my trips, except Mexico.  Coincidence?  Or is a germ ridden buffet to blame?

Well, I have another trip to my mom’s coming up in April so I think I’ll put my theory to the test and skip the lounge.  We’ll see how that goes.

All of this is to explain why I’ve been rather absent from the blog for the last week or so.  But I’m mostly recovered now and ready to get started on my next miniature project, the Christmas Cottage.

As I mentioned previously, my friend Sue gave me this dollhouse when no one in her family wanted it.  It even came with a deed showing that it was built in 1990.  Two lucky girls named Kristi and Dawn received it for Christmas.

It was built from a Greenleaf kit.  I googled it and it looks like Greenleaf is still in business.  In fact, they list this particular dollhouse, The Harrison, for $195 although it is ‘out of stock’.  I may end up purchasing some replacement roof shingles from them if I can’t find any that matches first.

My plan is to start by sprucing up the exterior.  There are a few repairs needed, some missing trim needs replacing …

and quite a few broken shingles do as well.

I also plan to remove the faded, and somewhat oversized silk flowers from the window boxes.

Not only are they a bit oversized, but they are all wrong for a Christmas cottage!

Once I’ve got the exterior in hand, I’ll move on to the interior.

It’s currently a bit sherbet-y with its Easter egg colored rooms.  I’m thinking that I’ll just paint all of the rooms in a neutral off-white to create a blank canvas and then go from there.

The house has 8 rooms, so it’s quite spacious.  In addition to the 7 rooms that are visible from the back, there is a fun little attic room that you can access through the roof.

Um, that green furry carpet is going to have to go though.  I hope that doesn’t end up being too much of a production.

It definitely looks like I’ve got my work cut out for me, so I think I’d better get started!

Stay tuned to see what I come up with for this dollhouse makeover.

I thought I should do a final wrap up post for my recent miniature project, the free-at-the-curb dollhouse.

But before we get to that, I think I need better names for my two semi-completed dollhouse projects.  So, from now on the free-at-the-curb dollhouse is going to be called “no. 42” …

and my original dollhouse, the one my dad made for me, is going to be called “the victorian”.

Now, I’m really torn about no. 42.  Am I going to keep it?  Or am I going to try to sell it?

I’m really waffling between those two options, and I think it shows in the finished product.  I furnished it just enough to make it impossible to price reasonably if I’m going to sell it, but I haven’t furnished it enough to consider it ‘finished’ if I plan to keep it.

So … yeah … I’m still on the fence about that.

But let’s see where I’ve ended up for now, sound good?

First up, the before.

I gave the exterior a fresh paint job and a few embellishments.

Then the interior before …

I updated all six rooms with new flooring and wall treatments, and I added some furniture to each room.  So here’s a breakdown of those costs.

The living room – $45.

The hallway – $2.

The kitchen – $16.50.

Oh, and by the way, I have added a new piece to the kitchen since I first shared that space …

I painted up a little Swiss cross stool to match the full-sized one that I have in my own house.  The stool cost $6.50, so I’ve added that to the original cost that I shared for the kitchen.

The blue bedroom – $38.

The dressing room – $41.

The rose bedroom – $53.50.

That’s a grand total of $196.  I should note that when I used items that I already had on hand, like the wallpaper in the living room or that fabulous cupboard in the kitchen, I did not include them in the cost.  I only included any new things that I purchased.

Of course, as you know, the original dollhouse was a curbside find, and thus was free.

So here’s my thought.  I’m going to list the dollhouse for sale furnished for $200.

But I’m also going to offer it unfurnished for $75.

That will cover the cost of the permanent improvements like the flooring and wallpaper.

The beauty of buying it unfurnished is that the new owner gets to furnish it however they like, which is really the most fun part of any dollhouse project.  I think $75 is a bit of a bargain, so hopefully someone else will too.

On the other hand, the beauty of buying it furnished is that you get all of the pieces that I created for each room including the perfect English sofa …

the cupboard in the kitchen …

the blue armoire …

and many more.

Let me give you an additional selling point for no. 42, the size.

At 24″ tall, 22″ wide and 14″ deep, it’s small enough to tuck on top of a cabinet or dresser, or tuck away in the corner of a room (or possibly at the foot of the stairs).

Another bonus for display are those over-sized windows.  You can see into the rooms rather well from the front.

I’ll be listing no. 42 on my “miniatures for sale” page, however, please note that I am not offering shipping on this one.  It’s pretty heavy and shipping it would probably be quite expensive.  But if any of my local readers are interested, please reach out via email to qisforquandie@gmail.com.

That brings me to my next miniature project.

This one needs a name now too, so I’m considering calling it the Christmas cottage because I think it will be fun to dress it for Christmas.  I know, I know, Christmas is 10 months away.  But this project might take a while.

My friend Sue gave this dollhouse to me.  It had been passed around in her family, but all of the various nieces, nephews, and grandchildren had outgrown it and no one wanted it, so she thought of me.

It needs a little work both outside and in, and I’m not planning to get started on it until after I return from a trip to visit my mom that’s coming up.  But stay tuned, there will definitely be more miniature projects to come!

In the meantime, how do you like the end result with no. 42?  Leave a comment and let me know.

The last room in the free-at-the-curb dollhouse is the living room.

Well, there’s also a downstairs hallway, but I didn’t do much there so I’ll include it in this post with the living room.  Especially since they share a floor.

So let’s start with that.

This is the Light Oak Gloss Finish Wide Plank flooring from Miniature Crush.

I really should have read the fine print (or even just the title) before I ordered it because you know me, I don’t love a glossy finish.  Also, I should point out that this sheet of flooring was $16.99.  The unfinished pine flooring from Hobby Lobby that I used on the 2nd level is $7.49 per sheet, so less than half the price.  Now, don’t get me wrong, the Miniature Crush flooring is definitely much nicer quality than the Hobby Lobby version, and if you like a glossy light oak wood floor, it’s perfect right out of the package.  It’s also peel and stick, so you don’t have to mess with glue.

However, for me the Hobby Lobby version saves me the next step, which was to lightly sand down that glossy finish and add a color wash using a very watered down Dried Sage from Dixie Belle.

Brush on, then wipe off the excess until you’re happy with the look.  The flat finish of the Dixie Belle paint really toned down both the shine and the yellowish color.

Once dry I added a coat of Dixie Belle’s clear wax for protection.

It was much easier to fit this floor because as you’ll remember, the ‘guts’ of the dollhouse can be removed.

So I was able to pull that out, peel off the backing and stick the floor down, and then put the ‘walls’ back in place.  Easy peasy.

Actually, while I had the ‘guts’ removed, it was also super simple to ‘wallpaper’ the hallway using some more of my Gulliver’s Travels book pages (I did this in my dollhouse project last year too).

I just cut the book page to size and adhered it with Mod Podge.

I added a framed vintage photo to the wall.  The photo is from my stash of old family photos, but it’s one where no one was able to identify the people in it.

The wood frame is from Michael’s and came unfinished.  I painted it in Dixie Belle’s Coffee Bean.

The chair is one I painted up last year as part of a dining set.

I have the set listed for sale on my ‘miniatures for sale‘ page, but so far there are no takers.

Also, FYI, purchased four of these sets from Hobby Lobby last year for $10 each but now they don’t seem to carry them anymore.  I did find the set on Etsy for $26.95 plus $6 shipping, but somehow paying more than 3x as much for it seems wrong to me.

Anyway, I’ve temporarily placed one of the chairs in the hallway, but I may have to come up with something else for this spot so as not to break up that dining set.

The ‘sisal rug’ in the hallway is another rug that I printed myself on canvas.

Back to the living room.  I used some leftover pieces of black and white toile wallpaper on the upper half of the living room walls.  This was leftover from wallpapering the bathroom in last year’s dollhouse project.

Then I painted some wainscoting in Dixie Belle’s Drop Cloth for the lower half of the walls.

The wainscoting was also from Miniature Crush, and I have to confess that I didn’t quite have enough to finish the back wall and since the sofa mostly sits in front of it, I didn’t bother.  I just left that back wall painted.

I’m sure most of you are familiar with my printed rugs by now.  I used one in the blue bedroom of this house, and last year I used one in the purple bedroom of my first dollhouse.

I wanted something similar for the living room, but in shades of grey, so it occurred to me that I could simply print the rug using the black and white setting on the printer, rather than in color.

And it worked out perfectly!

As for furnishings, I shared my perfect English sofa in my last post.

Now … full disclosure … I made an attempt at creating a tufted ottoman to go in front of the sofa and it was a dismal failure.  Maybe I’ll try again one day, but for now I’m just placing the coffee table from Temu in front of the sofa.

I purchased the coffee table unfinished.  To finish it, I applied some of the Sweet Pickins Dark Oil Wax using a small brush and wiping away any excess.  It worked quite well except in spots where there must have been excess glue.

I also created something to hang on the wall.

I used a small bit from the Roycycled Label Masterboard decoupage paper .  I decoupaged it onto a thin sheet of balsa wood.  Then I cut the square ends off some chopsticks, painted them in Dixie Belle’s Coffee Bean and glued them on to the balsa wood to create a frame.  Super simple.

I adhered it to the wall using Tacky Wax, so it’s fully removable or adjustable.

With that I’m calling this project ‘done for now’.

I’ll wrap up this post with a breakdown of the money I spent on the living room/hallway combo.  Well … as for the hallway, that would be a whopping $2.  I already had the book pages I used on the walls, the sisal rug and the little chair.  The only thing I spent money on was the picture frame at $2.

The living room was a bit pricier, I spent $12.99 on the wainscoting.  The wallpaper was left over from my last project.  I printed the rug myself on canvas that I already had on hand too.  The sofa was $26 and the coffee table was $6.  So around $45 total.

I’ll be back next week to recap the entire project, and to share what’s coming up next, so be sure to stay tuned!

I happened to glance over at the cover of Perfect English Farmhouse the other day …

And I couldn’t help thinking that the sofa on the cover of that book was similar to the sofa that I had ordered from The Modern Dollhouse for the living room of the free dollhouse.

It’s not exactly the same, but similar.  Could I replicate the look from that book cover photo using paint?

I started by watering down some Dixie Belle paint in a color called Putty.  I probably ended up with about a 50/50 mix of paint to water.  The extra watery-ness helps the paint soak into the fabric of the sofa.

I taped off the wooden legs, used a brush to apply the watered down Putty to the fabric, and then left it to dry for several hours.  It will take quite a bit longer for this to dry than your typical painted surface.

Next, I dry brushed Dixie Belle’s Ecru over the Putty.  I totally meant to take photos of each step, including this one, but as per usual I got involved in the project and totally forgot about taking pics.

Once the Ecru was dry, I taped off some thin grain sack stripes and then dry brushed those in Dixie Belle’s Barn Red.

After taking the tape off the legs, I applied some Sweet Pickins Dark Oil Wax to them using a small brush, wiping away any excess with an old t-shirt.

Finally, I added some of Dixie Belle’s clear wax over the fabric.

The next step was to add some pillows similar to those in the inspiration pic.  After once again searching miniature fabrics online and not really finding exactly what I wanted, I wondered if I could print my own.

After first accidentally ordered printable canvas which wasn’t going to work at all, I found this cotton printable fabric on Amazon.

Then after an hour or so of scouring the world wide web for the perfect image of the fabric I wanted, I finally found it on a wallpaper site.

I sized the image by pasting it into Excel, and then just clicking and dragging to the size I wanted.  After printing it, and then letting it dry for at least 15 minutes as per the instructions, I peeled off the plastic backing and had the perfect scrap of fabric to make into a throw pillow.

Once again I used Tacky Glue to make the pillow cover, I glued it up with the right sides together leaving an opening at the back.  Then I turned it right side out and filled it with rice which is something new that I tried.  It looks a bit more realistic than using polyfill.  Once the rice was in place, I glued together the opening.

I ended up making just the one pillow.

I may go back and make a couple more down the road.

In fact, I’m actually going to make another sofa too.  I like how this turned out so much that I finally feel like I’ve found the right look for the living room in my first dollhouse.  And I think I found an even better option for my next re-creation of the perfect English sofa …

This one is also from The Modern Dollhouse and is called the White Chesterfield, and its shape is even more suited to copying that inspiration piece.

But what do you think?  Did I meet my goal of copying that perfect English sofa with this first one?

Leave a comment and let me know.  And then come back soon to see the rest of the completed living room in the free-at-the-curb dollhouse!

A few weeks back one of my readers suggested that I check out Temu for miniatures (thank you for that suggestion Sue).

I’d certainly heard of Temu.  Quite a few of the miniaturists that I follow on YouTube get things from Temu.

I’d never really checked them out though, mainly because they have a reputation of being somewhat shady.  The product quality can be hit or miss, it can be difficult to return things, and shipping can take a long time.  Worse yet, their cybersecurity is somewhat questionable and that’s never good when you’re purchasing online with a credit card.  They’ve also been know to copy (a.k.a. steal) designs from other sources, but then the same has been said about Hobby Lobby and even Target.

But their prices are quite low, and I really liked the look of the particular item that Sue had shared with me, so I decided to go ahead and give them a shot.

Here’s what I ordered:

Well … most of it anyway, I’m still waiting on two more pieces (and I placed my order on January 12).

For the most part, I’m happy with the quality of the pieces I’ve received.  The unfinished furniture looks pretty good, just a few rough edges here or there.  But that’s typical of these unfinished pieces.

The little carton of eggs is a tad oversized in scale, plus the color of the eggs is a bit off.

They are a little too orange.  I plan to try giving them a paint job to make them look more realistic.  But I only paid $1.62 for them, so I can’t really complain.

Ironically, I had just ordered a dresser from The Modern Dollhouse before I ordered from the Temu site.  I paid $15 for it, and it did not include knobs.

I only paid $7.74 for a similar dresser from Temu, and I won’t have the additional expense of adding pulls or knobs.  As you can see, the Temu version is going to require a little bit of sanding though, and it’s also slightly larger.

I may also be removing those knobs and replacing them with something better anyway, we’ll see.

I also ordered a set of 20 mini cutting boards for $2.61.

And actually, these are more ‘to scale’ than the set of three that I shared on Tuesday.  As a reminder, I purchased those at Michael’s for $4.

The unfinished coffee table that I purchased from Temu is going in the free-at-the-curb dollhouse.

I’ll share how that turned out with you soon.

Finally there is the item that motivated me to order from Temu in the first place, and that is this chair …

Isn’t that lovely?

I was really hoping it would be the right scale, because the description of it says it’s “1:8 – 1:12” scale.  For reference, Barbie doll sized items are usually 1:6 scale, my dollhouse is 1:12 scale. So it is a tiny bit big, but I think it still works.

Here it is next to the bedroom fireplace in my dollhouse.

The description of the chair on Temu also simply said that it was made out of resin, so I was really hoping it wouldn’t look too ‘plastic’.  I’m guessing that it’s 3D printed and sometimes 3D printed items lack in realism.

However, the cushion is covered in actual fabric, rather than also being made of resin.

Of all the items I ordered at Temu, I paid the most for this chair at $20.10.  But I do rather love it, so that still feels like a bargain.

My one complaint about Temu is that despite going into my account and turning off all notifications other than those related to shipping, I am still getting a barrage of emails from Temu with subject lines that say “ATTENTION REQUIRED!” and “Purchase will be returned as CREDIT!” which makes you think it’s something important that you need to follow up on.  Instead they are just trying to get you to buy more stuff.  So if that’s the kind of thing that is going to bug you, then buyer beware.

Anyway, as you can see I have quite a few miniatures to get painted now!  But first, I’m going to try to escape the cold with a trip to Florida.  Last week we hit a low of -22° F and a ‘feels like’ temp of -45°.  It’s definitely time to head to a warmer climate for a few days, so my sister and I are headed to Florida for 4 days at Disney World followed by a 5 day cruise to the Bahamas.  Well … it’s supposed to be a warmer climate but Florida is expecting their coldest weather in 15 years this weekend including windchills in the 20’s.  What?!  Oh well.  That’s still 65 degrees warmer than our -45°, right?

I do have some blog posts pre-scheduled for the next week or so though, so be sure to stay tuned!

But before I go, how about you?  Have you ever ordered from Temu?  And if so, how was your experience?  Leave a comment and let me know.